Virtual House Research Articles

Professional Policies Approved by the 2021 ASHP March Virtual House of Delegates.

Professional Policies Approved by the 2021 ASHP March Virtual House of Delegates.

The Effect of Virtual Interviews and Social Media on Applicant Decision-Making During The 2020-2021 Resident Match Cycle

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered the residency application and interview process. Due to social distancing concerns, residency programs have had to virtually showcase their program to applicants, many utilizing social media. Similarly, applicants have had to devise novel ways of assessing "goodness of fit", one of the top factor's applicants use when ranking programs (1). Whether or not these attempts made an impact on an applicant's decision-making process has yet to be determined. Residency candidates interviewing for a diagnostic and/or interventional radiology residency position at our institution completed an online survey. The goal of the survey was to assess the potential influence of virtual interviews, social media, and virtual events on an applicant's decision to apply to, interview at, and rank residency programs. 78/156 (50%) candidates completed the survey. Thirty-five percent reported applying to more programs and 58% reported accepting more interviews than they would have if interviews were not virtual. Forty-two percent reported that social media played a vital role during the application season and 71% reported using social media to learn more about the program. Sixty-nine percent attended a virtual open house, 57% of whom reported that attending the open house influenced their decision to apply to a program. Sixty-three percent reported that attending a virtual reception influenced a program's ranking. Social media has had a growing role in the medical community, and the COVID-19 pandemic likely accelerated an inevitable shift in residency program "branding" and how applicants perceive overall "goodness of fit".

Pathology Residency Open-House Events: A Novel Marketing Paradigm.

ObjectivesDue to the continued impact of coronovirus 2019 (COVID-19), residency programs were advised to offer virtual interviews in place of traditional in-person interviews for the 2021 match recruitment season. As a result, many pathology residency programs offered preinterview virtual open-house events to meet prospective applicants before the interview season. This article aims to understand applicants’ perspective on those events during the residency recruitment season of 2020 to 2021. MethodsWe performed a cross-sectional survey-based study involving 95 pathology residency applicants. ResultsOur results demonstrated that applicants generally have a positive perception of open house events; 91% found virtual open-house events beneficial, 63.2% attended open-house events for programs they were not considering applying to. Considering the high number of offered virtual open house events, 17% of applicants felt overwhelmed by attendance and 30% felt obligated to attend. ConclusionsThis brief report demonstrates the generally positive impact of these events.

Modern methods of the digital virtual analysis for design and tests of road vehicle restraint systems

Widespread introduction of information technologies of virtual digital testing to reproduce vehicle impacts against vehicle restraint systems with simulation impact modeling road safety barriers, crash cushions, terminals, removable barrier sections, transitions and passive safety devices, is one of the main actions providing decline in mortality on roads as a result of the road accidents. On this basis the so-called “Virtual Digital Proving Ground” (Virtual Test House) for testing of road arrangement elements is developed. The researches, conducted for its development are based on use of modern world-class software products and numerical methods of mechanics. Digital modeling of crash-situations with arrival of vehicles on elements of road arrangement, allows to solve complex problems of the analysis of new designs now, to investigate behavior of vehicles at with arrival on the design. Implementation of intellectual systems of automated management of vehicles does not give the chance to hope for the exception of refusals, both the equipment, and control systems, that does the problem of development of the innovation passive safety systems extremely relevant. Research and development carried out MADI by the general research team together with LLC M&PQ allowed to take the major step in advance of works on increase in safety on roads, to create tools for design of new innovations, to develop reasonable standards in the field of the road systems of passive safety. In article prospects the development of these researches in scientific and practical directions and for the purpose of increase in competences of educational programs are considered.

A rise in social media utilization by U.S. neurology residency programs in the era of COVID-19

ObjectiveTo determine how neurology departments and residency programs in the United States used virtual communication to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigated the presence and use of social media pages, virtual outreach events, and virtual internship opportunities. MethodsTwitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts were identified (or noted as nonexistent) for 159 accredited neurology departments and residency programs. Google searches and social media site specific searches were performed. For existing pages, the date of creation was determined and all posts on and after March 1st, 2020, were assessed to investigate the presence of virtual open house advertisements. Each program was also assessed for virtual sub-internship and elective opportunities on the Visiting Student Application Service (VSAS). ResultsA majority of neurology residency programs (110) had a social media presence, particularly on Twitter and Instagram. Most residency program Twitter and Instagram accounts were created after March 1st, 2020, and this was not the case on Facebook. Twitter and Instagram were used most to advertise virtual opportunities. A correlation was observed between presence and number of social media accounts and program prestige. Few programs offered virtual opportunities on VSAS for the 2020–2021 year. ConclusionNeurology residency programs adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic by creating residency social media accounts, primarily on Instagram and Twitter, and hosting virtual informational events. We recommend that neurology residency applicants create professional Instagram and Twitter accounts to network with programs and receive updates about virtual events. Similarly, going forward, we recommend continued social media use by neurology residency programs for applicant outreach.

Actions of the March 15, 2021 Virtual House of Delegates

Actions of the March 15, 2021 Virtual House of Delegates

The Virtual House Call-Providing High-Quality and Safe Pediatric Primary Care Through Video Visits During COVID-19.

The Virtual House Call-Providing High-Quality and Safe Pediatric Primary Care Through Video Visits During COVID-19.

Building a Community Partnership in a Pandemic: NJ Pediatric Residency Advocacy Collaborative.

The New Jersey Pediatric Residency Advocacy Collaborative (NJPRAC) is a statewide collaborative with faculty leads from each of the 10 New Jersey pediatric residency programs. The 2 major goals of the collaborative were to build community partnerships between pediatric residency programs and local organizations and develop a core advocacy curriculum. In this article, we focus on how the NJPRAC built community partnerships with Family Success Centers (FSCs) across the state over the course of a 2-year period. FSCs are located within every county in the state and fall under the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, providing resources and supports for families in crisis, with a focus on child abuse prevention services. Amid this growing partnership, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic forced the NJPRAC to swiftly pivot its partnership and develop innovative programs to support families during the COVID-19 pandemic. As FSC leadership communicated families' concerns to the collaborative, we initiated the Virtual House Call webinar, which incorporated pediatricians, community leaders, and allied health professionals to answer COVID-19 questions. These webinars quickly expanded into weekly interprofessional series, with experts in mental health, law, nutrition, and dentistry partnering with pediatricians from various subspecialties. Key to the webinars' success was responding in real time to audience questions, collaborating with the FSC leadership on content, and garnering the support from the local New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics and the national American Academy of Pediatrics. A key challenge remains to meaningfully incorporate pediatric trainees into community partnerships. The NJPRAC plans to continue the Virtual House Call series with continuous input from the FSCs and participating families.

Neurosurgical residency adaptations for the residency application cycle amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Acute on chronic sequelae

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has transformed medical education, including the upcoming residency application cycle. External rotations have been restricted, but virtual opportunities for applicants have not yet been assessed. Objective(s)To describe how neurosurgical residency programs are adapting to the 2021 application cycle through augmented social media usage and establishment of virtual sub-I’s and open houses. MethodsOne hundred fifteen separate programs were identified on ERAS. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, residency websites, and the Visiting Student Application Service (VSAS) were reviewed for virtual open house and sub-I opportunities. Professional neurosurgery society websites were also reviewed. All data is updated as of February 14 th, 2021. ResultsEighty-eight (77%) programs had some social media presence. Fourty-three (30%) departmental accounts were created in 2020. Twenty-four (57%) of the residency program accounts were created in 2020. Programs offered 35 (18%) open house opportunities on Twitter, 19 (17%) on Facebook, and 23 (20%) on Instagram. Nineteen (17%) virtual sub-I opportunities were on Twitter, 9 (8%) on Facebook, and 10 (9%) on Instagram.Virtual opportunities were updated on 13 (12%) residency websites. The National Neurosurgery MedEd website had the most website listings of virtual opportunities with 34 (30%) programs listing open houses and 18 (16%) programs listing virtual sub-I’s. No program specific virtual opportunities were found on the AANS or CNS websites. VSAS identified only 4 (4%) virtual sub-internships. ConclusionMany neurosurgical residency programs increased their virtual presence amid the COVID-19 pandemic. More programs could utilize these platforms to mitigate applicant restriction in upcoming neurosurgery residency application cycles.

Professional Policies Approved by the 2020 ASHP November Virtual House of Delegates.

Professional Policies Approved by the 2020 ASHP November Virtual House of Delegates American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Volume 78, Issue 7, 1 April 2021, Pages 646–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/zxab021 Published: 22 February 2021

Designing for cultural learning and reflection using IoT serious game approach

Previous studies have highlighted the difficulty that designers face in designing interactive systems that will help visitors learn and reflect upon cultural issues in support of museums’ new roles of shaping cultural identify and community building. In this paper, we report a study to explore the potential of Internet of things (IoT) serious games to support cultural learning and reflection by incorporating five IoT-mediated interactive exhibits—an online trading game, an interactive grinder and Goldsmith simulators, a lantern design and a virtual house decoration station. We present design goals to meet the aim and evaluate our approach through a museum study. The results show significant learning gains from pre-test to post-test, and our interview analyses indicate some evidence of participants engaging in all levels of reflection. From our findings, we discuss the design goals and recommend design guidelines for future IoT serious games to support reflective learning in museums.

Home Video Visits: Two-Dimensional View of the Geriatric 5 M's.

Telehealth visits using a video-to-home format are opportunities for virtual house calls. Embracing the benefits of the format allows a patient-centered approach to care that can reveal things that in-person clinic visits may miss.

Improving the Residency Program Virtual Open House Experience: A Survey of Urology Applicants

ObjectiveTo investigate the perception and value of virtual open houses for urology applicants in the COVID-19 era, since students can no longer attend subinternships and all interviews will be conducted virtually. MethodsA Twitter survey was sent to 230 likely urology applicants connected through the UroResidency platform. It asked about the relative value of components of the virtual open house and areas for suggested improvement. ResultsSeventy responded. Most potential applicants valued virtual open houses that discussed strengths and weaknesses of the program, had time to interact directly with the faculty, and included resident led presentations or discussions. Most agreed programs needed to have more direct time with residents to better understand the culture of the program. ConclusionIn this first virtual interview season for urology, likely applicants generally engage in virtual open houses and strongly prefer time to interact directly with residents to assess the program culture.

Home Energy Management and Monitoring Using Ubidots Platform

This paper introduces a practical design for home energy management and monitoring. It has been assumed that the home has a 12 VDC power source and with variable generation power. The virtual house has loads that consisting of four lamps, each with a power of 10 watts and operated on 12VDC. The home can be operated in two modes. The first mode is the grid-tied mode, in which the energy is imported or exported the power to/from the grid depending on whether the home source generation power is greater than or less than its load. The second mode is called the island mode, in which the home depends on its power supply to feed its loads with the required power. The transition between the two operating modes of the home is controlled fully by the Arduino UNO microcontroller according to the main grid status and home status (generation and load demand). The assumption that was set in the designed system is that the maximum current that a home source can supply is 3A. Therefore, when the current that a home needs is more than this value, it imports energy from the main grid and less than that value, it exports energy to the grid. The data of the grid voltage and load current of the home were transferred by the Arduino UNO microcontroller to the Node MCU using RF (HC-12) module. The cases of the main grid and the home power source are monitored in real-time using the Ubidots platform. These cases data raised to the Ubidots platform by using the Wi-Fi- ESP8266 included in the Node MCU board. All cases were tested in practice and the Ubidots platform showed a quick response in updating the data as well as its security

Documentary Film, Gender, and Activism in China: A Conversation with Ai Xiaoming

FQ board member and contributor Chris Berry translates a conversation between the independent female filmmakers Ai Xiaoming and Zeng Jinyan. Although of different generations, Xiaoming and Zeng are both outliers in China's male-dominated film industry. The most prominent women filmmaker among the first generation of independent documentarians, Ai Xiaoming has lived under virtual house arrest since Xi Jinping's rise to power in 2012. Zeng Jinyan came to public attention in 2006, when she documented the disappearance of her husband, civil rights activist Hu Jia, in a protest blog; she later completed a PhD on the work of Ai Xiaoming while in exile in Hong Kong. Both women have recently reentered public life, Ai Xiaoming writing about her experiences of the novel coronavirus lockdown in her hometown of Wuhan and Zeng releasing a new film, Hanjiao yu eryu (Outcry and Whisper), focusing on the special pressures placed on women who dare to speak out in public in China.

Augmented Reality Virtual House Model Using ARCore Technology Based on Android

Scale model is a necessary building design in architecture as a way for architects to represent the results of the design as a physical model. The making of scale model requires components that costs some money. With the development of Augmented Reality (AR) technology, designer could bring the model design without having to make a scale model through marker tracking on a brochure. However, with the development of the technology itself, the researcher applies an AR method that can put an object in real environment by detecting flat surfaces. The method is Markerless AR. With this method, the use of marker tracking which requires a marker to remain on the frame of the camera is no longer needed. The technique in the new method will use plane detection that can detect flat surfaces by specifying points on the textures of the frame which is captured by the camera. The necessary stage is to define point cloud that will be used to mark the textures and the plane as a place to put the model in the form of virtual object. Object placed above the plane will remain stable despite having the camera moves around it, the plane will not move around because it is a result of virtual projections. The result of using plane detection will provide a space for the user to observe the model more clearly, such as on a floor or on a table because the model can be rescaled and rotated. Users also can move freely without being hindered by the marker tracking.

Professional policies approved by the 2020 ASHP March virtual House of Delegates.

Professional policies approved by the 2020 ASHP March virtual House of Delegates.

A virtual reality study of behavioral sequences in residential fires

Decision-making in residential fires can be difficult to study in an experimental setup. Virtual reality could be a way to expose participants to a residential fire scenario and collect data on their behavior. However, the validity of the data obtained needs to be assessed. To explore that, the data collected in two virtual reality residential fire scenarios in form of sequences of behavior was compared to the general model developed by Canter, Breaux and Sime. Two scenarios were developed, one with and one without a smoke alarm. Two samples of 20 participants each were exposed to a fire in a virtual house. The participants were residents of houses with the same layout as the virtual one, making them familiar with the building. The sequence of actions they performed were recorded and decomposition diagrams were drafted based on them, to then be compared to the general model. The results show that the participants’ sequences of behavior did not only fit those predicted by the general model, but also that the participants followed many different sequences, covering most of the possible patterns indicated in the general model, as it is expected in a real world fire.

Professional Policies Approved by the 2019 ASHP November Virtual House of Delegates.

Professional Policies Approved by the 2019 ASHP November Virtual House of Delegates.

Experience feedback and innovative pedagogical applications with HOME I/O

Abstract In the previous IFAC World Congress at Toulouse in 2017, HOME I/O was introduced as an innovative pedagogical tool. This software is the result of a R&D project between CReSTIC lab from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) and Real Games, partially founded by the French Ministry of National Education, in order to design a virtual house adapted to control and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education. The main idea, from the beginning, has been to bring a virtual house into the classroom, adapted to learners and teachers and usable from middle schools to universities. To perform this goal, a free soft PLC called CONNECT I/O, enables to connect HOME I/O to external automation technologies (e.g. PLC, Modbus TCP, OPC DA, microcontrollers...). All over the world, around 800 middle, high schools and universities use HOME I/O. Teachers and students’ feed-back have been taken into account by updating HOME I/O with new add-ons and features like: a simpler licensing system (2016), Scratch 2.0 (2017) integration and Python 3.x integration (2019). This paper presents these new features and a selection of some innovative pedagogical applications performed by teachers from middle school, high school, university, and even primary school! HOME I/O seems to prove that it is possible to have one simulation tool adapted to different levels of training and enabling original pedagogical approaches: flipped classroom, pedagogic digital twin, learning from errors, projects…